Effective Learning Environment: Contemporary Insights for Assessments and Strategies to Support Effective Teaching

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Learning environments ideally align to the challenges posed by specific learning contexts. Robust intake – and learning environment procedures and specific contemporary support for preservice and in-service teachers’ professional development, is lacking in the current literature. Psychosocial characteristics of classroom environments are frequently monitored by applying Likert-scale student perception questionnaires. Despite the strengths, Likert-scale questionnaires have many limitations. Reinforced by the general challenge posed by the pandemic, knowledge about effective online learning environments is called for. In this symposium, contributions to solutions to the mentioned contemporary challenges will be addressed and discussed by presenting four unique studies providing insights for assessments and strategies to support effective teaching in turbulent times.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Learning Environments

Chair

• Ridwan Maulana, University of Groningen

Papers

• Contemporary Student Perceptions of Teaching Behavior: A Topic Modeling Approach - Bilge Gencoglu, University of Groningen; Michelle Helms-Lorenz, University of Groningen; Ridwan Maulana, University of Groningen; Ellen Jansen; Oguzhan Gencoglu, Top Data Science

• Informed Intake: A Way to Improve Graduate Quality in Preservice Teacher Education? - Cor Suhre, University of Groningen; Ridwan Maulana, University of Groningen; Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma, University of Groningen

• Self-Access Online Training as an Effective Learning Environment to Promote In-Depth Reflections in Preservice Teachers - Ye Wang, The Education University of Hong Kong; James Ko, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Classroom Orchestration as a Potent Stimulator of Dialogic Teaching and Learner Engagement in Higher Vocational Classrooms - Yanmin Zhao, The Education University of Hong Kong; James Ko, The Education University of Hong Kong

Discussant

• David B. Zandvliet, Simon Fraser University